Here the phrase is once again in something I've written. You would never agree to *choosing* to disbelieve a photo. That would be preposterous. But you want to disbelieve it. Well, AI lets you do that now. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

(8/11) Now, we’re going back to the Bazaar. But this time you’re not up against a shopkeeper. You’re up against a massive digital infrastructure calculating your personal price tolerance.

(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

I guess we should all ask our state legislatures to follow suit.

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

Not with a bang, but with several imagined bangs with chicks that don't actually exist

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

Take that, bot.

RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

i still havent forgiven him for not treating sergei and helena rozhenko with the total adoration they deserve

“By ‘white,’ I mean ‘Anglo.’ By ‘Anglo,’ I mean ‘Scots-Irish,’ though it could also be Italian.”

Remember the couple from Yorkshire? They are here again.

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

enacting massive administrative barriers to voting privileges the party most enthusiastic about voting. in this case it also privileges people with passports. it would be an extinction-level event for the GOP

Their first move was "how do you expect us to believe it was stolen" And when the answer was "there is literal video" Their response was that in that case, I had evidence of a crime and therefore an obligation to do something about it

If it's so fucking useful then go do that useful thing with it! Make something that doesn't look like lazy shit! File a bunch of legal briefs that don't make a judge want to vaporize you where you stand! Fuck off!

Maybe this is why I found the Bud Freebird ad so refreshing.

David Mitchell, prophet and seer.

Age verification? ELM, not PINE.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Not what it seems.

kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s

Imagine one individual philosopher, writing thousands of pages to “give” morality to a reader. When they fail to create an ethical human, they assume their reader must not have read carefully enough—must have allowed other sources of advice to disrupt the one true, sound system of ethics. Well then.

“addressing its misfires with prompts that can run longer than 100 pages” This is a Ted Chiang story and it does not end well.

I learned today that when you get Safari to read a page to you, it consistently reads the word “chatbot” as “chatbit.”

Mark Zuckerberg is all-in on improv comedy groups as the new social media

Improv Comedy Group Fear Grips Wall Street as a New Stock Market Reality Sets In For months, investors have been growing increasingly anxious about how improv comedy groups will potentially transform the economy. Last week, those concerns suddenly spilled over into the stock market.

remarkably this is still a "what if ai takes everyone's job" story rather than a "what if this thing we've been pouring all our money into is bullshit" story

Another interesting thing in the Epstein correspondence is when he uses money to fake connections - e.g somebody asks him for tickets to a Itzhak Perlman concert “because the two of you are close” and he just gets his assistant to buy them from a scalping site

A big first in my phone life today: I listened carefully to the options, and the menu had indeed recently changed!

You don’t see a frozen NYC subway pole covered in icicles every day

This deserves to be spread as far and wide as what happened to Renee Good and Alex Pretti. apnews.com/article/immi...

The only thing I use your newspaper for is to line the birdcage. Also, you got Hillary Clinton’s middle initial wrong on page B11 bsky.app/profile/bgru...

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

I hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.

Belle and Sebastian It's rude when people ask you for a favorite Wes Anderson movie because you have a ranking that you update every time you're waiting for the bus. You've thought about playing hooky, and instead just slip into a bookshop on your lunch break.

In Canada, fortune cookies are bilingual.

I mean, if AI is actually genuinely useful to various industries, stop trying to get me to use it in order to write an e-mail- just use it in those industries.

When two police officers were shot in NE Portland last week, Oregon's right wing influencer sphere was convinced that this must be some radical leftist who did it. Instead, it was someone many of those folks had previously attended MAGA flag waves with. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/por...

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

It depends.

Encouraged by … whom?

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

And, I'll just step out of my historical lane for a second and say that the 19C railroad industry--a bubble these guys love to invoke as precedent--wasn't trying to pump railroad into everything. There was no Railroad School. No Railroad Healthcare System. No Railroad Personal Assistant.

Don't call it a "bubble." OpenAI, Microsoft, & Alphabet are just fine with that term because they get to tell you that all the dot-com bubble or the railroad bubble or the whatever bubble was, was a shaking out the greats after an intense period of mania. This isn't a bubble. This is a time bomb.